Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of vethathri maharishi’s simplified kundalini yoga practices on selected psychological variables among osteo arthritis women. To achieve the purpose of the present study, forty women those who are affected from osteo arthritis were selected from Nagercoil, Tamilnadu as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 35 to 45 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups of twenty subjects each. Group I acted as Experimental Group I (Simplified Kundalini Yoga) and Group II acted as Control Group. Psychological variables namely Stress was measured by Everlyn and Girdano’s Stress Questionnaire and Anxiety was measured by Trait Anxiety Questionnaire Spielberger. Pre test was conducted for all the subjects. This initial test scores formed as pre test scores of the subjects. The groups were assigned as Experimental Group I and Control Group in an equivalent manner. Experimental Group I was exposed to Simplified Kundalini Yoga (SKYG) and Control Group (CG) was not exposed to any experimental training other than their regular daily activities. The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. After the experimental treatment, all the forty subjects were tested. This final test scores formed as post test scores of the subjects. The pre test and post test scores were subjected to statistical analysis using Analysis of Co-variance (ANCOVA) to find out the significance among the mean differences. In all cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. Significant effect of simplified kundalini yoga practices was found on stress and anxiety.
Author Name : T. Jenila & Dr. G. R. Valliammal
Keywords: Simplified Kundalini Yoga, Stress, Anxiety, Arthritis Women.
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